Tag: McCain

09 APR

McCain: Trump ’emboldened’ Assad days before suspected chemical attack by saying he wanted to withdraw US troops from Syria

Jason Reed/Reuters A suspected chemical attack caused at least 40 people to suffocate to death, and injured hundreds more, in Syria on Saturday. On Sunday, US Senator John McCain criticized President Donald Trump for recently saying he is in favor of pulling US troops out of Syria.  McCain said the president’s words “emboldened” Syrian leader Bashar […]

14 DEC

Joe Biden comforts Meghan McCain about her father’s cancer in an emotional moment on ‘The View’

ABC/The View Joe Biden and Meghan McCain shared an emotion moment over her father and Biden’s son Beau. Both Beau Biden, who died in 2015, and John McCain were diagnosed with the same type of brain cancer. Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday shared an emotional moment with Meghan McCain over her father Sen. […]

02 DEC

Critics lay into John McCain over his support of the GOP tax bill

REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein Republican Sen. John McCain is taking heat from critics, who say he flip flopped by voting for the GOP tax bill.  In recent months McCain has called for bipartisanship and regular order in the Senate and, for years, has warned of the dangers of an expanding national debt. Critics, including McCain’s former […]

01 DEC

John McCain backs tax bill, as Senate GOP suspends vote for final tweaks

Senate Republicans are delaying their final vote on tax reform after heated debates nearly sent the bill back to committee. The bill has gained Senator John McCain’s (R-Arizona) support, but other Republicans still need convincing in order for it to pass. On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) called to delay the next vote […]

12 NOV

McCain blasts Trump: ‘There’s nothing “America First”‘ about believing Putin

Associated Press/J. Scott Applewhite Sen. John McCain criticized President Donald Trump on Saturday after Trump said he believed Vladimir Putin’s claim that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election. McCain said believing Putin and not the US intelligence community “is not only naive but also places our national security at risk.” Trump has long […]

23 OCT

McCain blasts draft-dodging Trump for Vietnam ‘bone spur’ excuse

Arizona Senator John McCain appears to have taken a swipe at President Donald Trump for avoiding the army draft during the Vietnam War. In an interview aired on C-Span on Sunday, McCain criticized those who were able to avoid serving in the military by citing medical conditions in comments about draft deferment. “One aspect of […]

23 OCT

John McCain took an indirect shot at Trump for his famous deferment during the Vietnam War

Twitter/CSPAN3 Sen. John McCain seemed to call out Trump for his medical deferment from the Vietnam War. The senator criticized wealthy Americans who “found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur” — the exact diagnosis Trump received in 1968. Trump famously dismissed McCain’s military service in 2015, saying “I like people who weren’t […]

17 OCT

‘It won’t be pretty’: Trump & McCain at each other’s throats again

Donald Trump said he will fight back and that it “won’t be pretty” after Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) made remarks which seemed to accuse people like the president of being unpatriotic. The veteran senator denounced “half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems,” as he accepted the National […]

11 OCT

Navy punishes McCain captain over collision that killed 10 sailors

The captain and executive officer of the USS John S. McCain have been relieved of duty and reassigned to administrative jobs in the Seventh Fleet, the US Navy said, blaming their poor judgment for the August collision that killed 10 sailors. The captain, Commander Alfredo J. Sanchez, and his executive officer Commander Jessie L. Sanchez […]